Word: pop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-five thousand to 130,000,000 (pop. of U. S.) equals...
Last week some youngsters in Dayton, Ohio (pop. 217,000) went to Y. M. C. A.s, some to libraries, some idled in the streets, some stayed at home. But none of the city's 34,000 public school children went to school. They were thoroughly instructed by their elders, however, in how to mismanage a city...
...colleges which still cling to old-fashioned ground plays is the University of Pittsburgh, for the past 15 years coached by tall, angular Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...
...kept on writing. Amazingly prolific, ingenuous, enthusiastic, he broke on the U. S. literary scene as an authentic voice from the hills, turned out a book of 703 sonnets in eleven months, wrote a book of extraordinary stories about the hill people, an autobiography. He taught school in Greenup (pop. 1,125), became county school superintendent at $100 a month, went to Europe last year on a Guggenheim Fellowship, returned to teach school, sell stories to Collier's, Esquire, and write editorials for a Greenup County paper...
Although most stores feel that business is better this year, one man was worried about the warm autumns the past few years. Glancing about to make sure that his heresy would not be over-heard, he whispered, "Personally, I'd just as soon have a bottle of pop at a game on one of these hot Saturdays...